Global Partner Talent Management, DEI & Senior Recruitment

"Expect to grow", personally and professionally: At Siegfried, we offer exciting challenges and ample opportunities to showcase your talents. As a trusted and respected partner to the pharmaceutical industry, we uphold the highest standards in safety, quality and sustainability, while fostering a culture that empowers you to thrive. Join a rapidly expanding global company, where diverse perspectives and experiences come together in a collaborative environment. Here, you'll find a workplace that values both collective success and your individual contributions—offering long-term opportunities to grow and make an impact.

Your Role:  

As Global Partner Talent Management, DEI & Senior Management TA (Talent acquisition), you will shape and drive the global approach to identifying, developing and engaging the talent and leaders required to deliver the company’s strategy and long-term success.
Reporting to the Global Head Talent & Culture, you will lead the global Talent Management and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion agenda and take direct responsibility for senior management and executive recruitment across the organization.
In this highly visible role, you will work closely with the senior business leaders (including Executive Committee) and the global HR community.
You will establish robust and pragmatic talent processes, strengthen leadership pipelines and succession, promote an inclusive culture, and ensure that critical senior leadership positions are filled with internal and external talent bringing the technical and leadership capabilities needed to deliver the strategy.

In That Role, You Will:

Global Talent Management

• Define and continuously evolve the global Talent Management strategy, frameworks and processes, ensuring alignment with business strategy and future capability requirements.
• Drive Strategic Workforce Planning, translate business strategy, priorities, and workforce analysis into workforce and capabilities gap analysis and action planning
• Own the global talent review and succession planning process, ensuring a consistent approach to identifying critical talent, assessing potential and building sustainable succession pipelines for key leadership positions.
• Design and maintain global approaches for talent identification, assessment, career development, internal mobility and leadership pipelines.
• Partner with senior leaders and HR Business Partners to identify critical roles, succession risks and development priorities.
• Drive the quality and effectiveness of talent discussions, moving the organization from talent identification toward concrete development, career and succession actions.
• Strengthen the use of objective assessment methodologies, competency frameworks and talent data to support high-quality people decisions.
• Monitor the health of the organization’s talent and leadership pipelines through relevant talent metrics and analytics.
• Work closely with Learning & Development, HR Business Partners and business leaders to connect succession needs with Learning & Development initiatives.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

• Shape and lead the company’s global DEI strategy and roadmap, translating organizational ambitions into pragmatic priorities and measurable actions.
• Partner with business and HR leaders to strengthen inclusive leadership and increase awareness of potential bias in people decisions. Build engagement and ownership for DEI across the organization.
• Establish meaningful DEI objectives, measures and reporting that enable the organization to monitor progress and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior management on DEI-related talent and organizational topics.
• Ensure global initiatives provide sufficient consistency while recognizing relevant local cultural, legal and market contexts.
• Lead Sustainability reporting for the social pillar, coordinating with all relevant stakeholders

Senior Management Recruitment

• Lead recruitment for selected senior management and business-critical positions globally, from initial search strategy through successful appointment.
• Partner directly with Executive Committee members, senior leaders and HR leadership to define the role mandate, candidate profile, success criteria and search strategy.
• Develop targeted market-mapping and sourcing strategies to identify relevant senior leaders.
• Conduct senior-level candidate identification, approach, screening and assessment while ensuring a professional and highly confidential candidate experience.
• Provide structured candidate assessments and recommendations to senior stakeholders, combining experience, leadership capability, potential, motivation and organizational fit.
• Coordinate executive interview and assessment processes and support stakeholders in making evidence-based selection decisions.
• Manage external search firms selectively, determining when external search support brings additional value and ensuring quality, cost effectiveness and accountability.
• Build long-term relationships with senior external talent, creating a strategic network that can support both immediate searches and future succession requirements.

Connecting Internal Talent and External Search

A particularly important dimension of the role is connecting Talent Management with Senior Management Search:

• Ensure internal succession pipelines are systematically considered before initiating external executive searches.
• Compare internal and external leadership talent against consistent success profiles and assessment criteria.
• Identify external talent proactively where internal succession pipelines show gaps.
• Use insights from executive searches and external talent markets to challenge and strengthen internal talent and succession discussions.
• Provide senior management with an integrated view of internal successors and external talent availability for critical leadership roles.

Your Profile:

You are an accomplished Talent professional with strong strategic capabilities and the credibility to operate with executives and senior leaders across cultures and geographies.
You combine expertise in Talent Management with hands-on executive/senior leaders recruitment capability and a pragmatic approach to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

You are comfortable moving between long-term organizational priorities and highly confidential individual talent decisions.

Your Experience and Qualifications

·    University degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Organizational Development or a related discipline; an advanced degree is an advantage.

·    Significant professional experience in Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Executive Search, HR Business Partnering or related HR disciplines within an international organization.

·    Strong experience designing and managing talent review, succession planning and talent identification processes.

·    Demonstrated experience recruiting senior management and/or executive-level positions, ideally including direct sourcing and executive search.

·    Strong understanding of assessment, leadership capabilities and structured selection methodologies.

·    Experience developing or implementing DEI strategies and initiatives in an international environment.

·    Experience advising senior executives on sensitive talent, succession and appointment decisions.

·    Strong understanding of international talent markets and the ability to translate external market intelligence into talent strategies.

·    Experience working effectively across multiple countries, cultures and organizational levels.

·    Experience within the pharmaceutical, life sciences, CDMO, chemical, manufacturing or another complex international industry would be an advantage.

·    Fluent English

Your Benefits: 

At Siegfried, you’ll find more than just a job, you’ll discover a place where your impact matters, and your growth is encouraged.

Professional Growth & Impact

- You'll find a dynamic, international environment with room to take ownership and make a long term sustainable impact.

- You'll be able to strengthen and shape the function
- Through your impact and Individual development solutions you'll grow personally and professionally at a fast pace.
- You'll collaborate with an experienced, passionate teams that values excellence, quality and continuous learning.

Attractive Compensation & Incentives

- Short-term incentive programs recognizing both performance and contribution

- Long-term incentive plan focused on sustained value creation
- Flexible working hours.

- Private Health Insurance.

- Life and Accident Insurance.

- Subsidized Canteen.

- Attractive Pension Plan.

If you’re excited by the idea of joining our group, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and be part of building something extraordinary!

Founded in 1873 in Zofingen, Switzerland, Siegfried has grown into a global network of 16 sites across three continents. With a team of more than 4,200 highly skilled professionals, we take the innovations of our pharmaceutical customers to industrial scale and manufacture safe drugs for patients worldwide. As a fully integrated CDMO, Siegfried is one of the few organizations today that can carry out the development and manufacturing of APIs and finished dosage forms under one roof. This unique combination of know-how and experience makes us the most trusted partner in the pharmaceutical industry.